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April 25, 2020
Plague Journal, Day 43: CoronaWorld oral history, college dean
I'm keeping a Covid-19 blog. In the latest entry, I interview a private university dean about his work helping students manage the transition of a semester uprooted by CoronaWorld. -
April 24, 2020
Plague Journal, Day 42: Co-op co-operating
I'm keeping a Covid-19 blog. The latest entry, discussing my move into a gentrifying Brooklyn historic district and my co-op's CoronaWorld aid system for ailing neighbors. -
April 23, 2020
Plague Journal, Day 41: Grieving Joe Montana
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. In the latest entry, I discuss following my life's greatest sports story from half a world away; the emptiness reminds me of CoronaWorld. -
2020-04-18
Plague Journal, Day 36: The Girlfriend and I fight
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, detailing the first CoronaWorld fight with The Girlfriend and the long-awaited arrival of The Kid. -
2020-04-16
Plague Journal, Day 35: Shuttered on Waverly
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, pondering the fate of workers from eight shuttered businesses on a single block across the street, plus detailing my further adventures in Unemployment Insurance applications. -
2020-04-15
Plague Journal, Day 33: Fighting depression
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, in which depression gets the better of me: -
2020-04-13
Plague Journal, Day 31: Whitman: "Beat! Beat! Drums!"
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, filled with obituaries, Walt Whitman's tales of Civil War hospitals, and a poem. -
2020-04-12
Plague Journal, Day 30: Pilers and filers
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, discussing the difference between pilers and filers and the power of scrubbing. -
2020-04-11
Plague Journal, Day 29: Listening in the CoronaHush
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, from a decent day in CoronaWorld (including receipt of new masks), all things considered. -
2020-04-10
Plague Journal, Day 28: Sirens, corpses, seder
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, featuring sirens, 1,000 dead New Yorkers, real estate concerns, and a videoconference Passover seder. -
2020-04-09
Plague Journal, Day 27: Battling CoronaBody
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, discussing depression, Robert Caro, my closed tennis court, baking, and CoronaBody. -
2020-04-08
Plague Journal, Day 26: Everything enrages
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, in which I battle unwarranted rage, stoke warranted rage, and allow my mom's exercise regime to crack my armor. -
2020-04-07
Plague Journal, Day 25: Neon pink bonds
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, including observations on the bonds between New Yorkers sparked by the thoughts of Daniel Kahneman, fast and slow. "I head to my windows for the city’s 7 p.m. ritual cheer for the health care workers, first responders, laborers making the city function, saving our lives. It's a modest gesture, but the bonds radiate, neon pink." -
2020-04-06
Plague Journal, Day 24: Using the 12-step toolkit
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Today's entry, with updates on The Girlfriend, face masks, the family, and a few 12-step kernels I'm finding useful in CoronaWorld. -
2020-04-05
Plague Journal, Day 23: A Sumatran bus story
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Today's entry, with more thoughts about my time in Indonesia, its parallels with New York City in CoronaWorld, and a bit about baking: -
2020-03-17
Plague Journal
Gavin McCormick is a reporter, writer, and professor who lives in Brooklyn. Since early March 2020, when his family entered quarantine, he has been keeping a daily COVID-19 journal. Created with no plan beyond tracking the world, his life, and his mind at an unusual moment, journal entries encompass daily life with his family, including his 12-year-old daughter and his girlfriend; family history; reportage of pandemic life in Brooklyn, including of quarantine, economic collapse, and #BLM protests; observations on education, journalism, and politics; discussions of cooking and music; and reflections on connection and loss, all during a time of intense social unease. -
2020-04-01
Plague Journal, Day 20: Grieving Fountains of Wayne
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. The latest entry discusses our amateur diagnosis of The Girlfriend; ambiguous grief; and a rash of death, including that of a top tunesmith. -
2020-03-27
Plague Journal, Day 14: Grieving Ambiguously
I'm keeping a Covid-19 Journal. Here's the latest entry, as The Girlfriend and The Kid stay on the mend and north Brooklyn fills with the sound of ambulance sirens. -
2020-03-25
Plague Journal, Day 12: The Four Ts
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, with updates on the health of The Kid and The Girlfriend: -
2020-03-24
Plague Journal, Day 11: Devolution: Thermometer Edition
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, including discussion on the devolution of the household thermometer: -
2020-04-04
Plague Journal, Day 22: BCW (Before CoronaWorld)
Here's the latest entry, demarcating the Before and After of CoronaWorld, and grieving some of what's lost -
2020-04-03
Plague Journal, Day 21: Kid fight
Here's the latest entry, which discusses the time sludge of Corona-World, along with my atrophying parenting skills -
2020-03-22
Plague Journal, Day 9: Great Brownie debate
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry: -
2020-03-21
Plague Journal, Day 8: The Circle of disease tightens
The Girlfriend's friend enters the hospital with lung problems, awaits test results; also, her colleague is a possible Covid-19 vector. The Girlfriend experiences tension with her mother in a nursing home, her children at her apartment. Meanwhile, my mother adjusts to her new isolation. -
2020-03-20
Plague Journal, Day 7: "Power to the Little Creatures"
Keeping up with the news enrages me, so The Kid and I climb on bikes to ride through Prospect Park; Brooklynites seem withdrawn, more dour. The Kid gets her first online middle-school assignments; The Girlfriend packs up her son's New Jersey dorm room; and as the city empties out, we begin to hear birdsong and sirens. -
2020-03-19
Plague Journal, Day 6: "This one is a disease vector"
I'm keeping a Plague Journal, here is today's entry: I struggle to file my unemployment claim in an overwhelmed system; Trumpians trot out a racist description of Covid-19; I work to grasp the virus's severity with everything from face touching to pants buying; and The Girlfriend and I walk and jog through Bed-Stuy. -
2020-03-17
Plague Journal, Day 4: Existential Collapse
I'm a Brooklyn journalist starting a Covid-19 journal, after beginning physical separation on Friday. In today's entry, a social media acquaintance warns of psychological weirdness in the near-future; Trumpian statements send the stock market plummeting; and I take a walk around Bed-Stuy to wash my eyes, clear my circuits. -
2020-03-18
Plague Journal, Day 5: Drawing WiffWaffles
As the reality of the pandemic begins to dawn across the country, I walk through Prospect Park, hear strangers express anxiety, and interact with The Kid via text and on a walk in north Flatbush. -
2020-03-22
Rooftop Dating in Brooklyn
This adorable young couple lived across the street from each other. He saw her dancing on her rooftop and wanted to meet her, so he sent his phone number over on his drone. They had a quarantine date via FaceTime (a video iphone app) and then met up for their first date while maintaining social distancing. He arrived in a giant hamster bubble with flowers! -
2020-04-23
Indie Brooklyn Publishers Speak from Indoors during the COVID-19 Shutdown
"As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, so does its impact. Designers, most of our work being analog and intimate, are left in a hard place at the time when places to encounter designed publications grow fewer, and printing costs grow prohibitive, without a live audience." This article includes interviews with Robert Blair and Kurt Woerpel, two of the four founders of TXTbooks in Brooklyn on how publishers are changing with the COVID-19 pandemic and was written by a senior journalism student following a beat developed and thought about in terms of the "local" in a journalism course at Pratt Institute that was upended by the pandemic. -
2020-03-12
Evaluating Government COVID-19 Responses in Mid-March (from Brooklyn)
"After the initial spread of the COVID-19 from its epicenter its Wuhan, China, government officials from around the world are faced with making important decisions that affect the wellbeing of their nation. " This article describes the federal and state government responses to COVID-19 from Brooklyn and was written by a senior journalism student following a beat developed and thought about in terms of the "local" in a journalism course at Pratt Institute that was upended by the pandemic. -
2020-04-07
Acid attack on Brooklyn woman in apparent coronavirus hate crime. NY Mayor DeBlasio calls rise in racist atacks on Asians a “crisis.”
AsAm News report on acid attack on a Brooklyn woman. Hate crimes against people of Asian and Jewish descent have increased dramatically during this crisis, as people pin the blame on scapegoats. -
04/22/2020
COVID themed Grafitti -- Brooklyn, NY on PAUSE ("Policies Assure Uniform Safety for Everyone"),
Graffiti in Red Hook, Brooklyn -- political commentary re: US President and capitalism in the context of Covid crisis -- a moment where we rely heavily on "essential workers" -
05/10/2020
soup kitchen line -- Brooklyn, NY on "PAUSE" ("Policies Assure Uniform Safety for Everyone"),
"Socially distanced" line wrapping around the block, at CHIPS pop-up Soup Kitchen in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Food insecurity a growing crisis during our "year of the plague" *05/10/2020 -- Mother's Day 2020 *iphone photo -
2020-04-17
A Walk through Covid-19 Brooklyn (Nathan's Famous - Coney Island)
Sign informing customers they must wear a face mask posted outside Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, Brooklyn. -
2020-04-24
A Walk through Covid-19 Brooklyn (Prospect Park Sign)
Electronic sign in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. -
2020-04-29
A Walk through Covid-19 Brooklyn (Shore Road, Bay Ridge)
Chalk writing found on Shore Road in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. -
2020-04-17
A Walk Through Covid-19 Brooklyn (Coney Island Beach Boardwalk Sign)
Walking along the boardwalk in Coney Island, a sign reminding the public how far apart they should stand appears. -
2020-04-12
A Walk through Covid-19 Brooklyn (Shore Road Park Sign)
Sign informing the public how far apart to stand from one another (6 ft.) near Belt Parkway entrance on Shore Road in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. -
2020-04-07
A Walk through Covid-19 Brooklyn (Shore Parkway Courts)
Walking along Shore Parkway, I see a locked gate and sign informing the public that playing in groups is not permitted. -
2020-04-24
A Walk through Covid-19 Brooklyn (Prospect Park Playground)
Walking in Prospect Park, I see a sign informing the public of a playground closure. -
2020-04-06
A Walk through Covid-19 Brooklyn (Shore Parkway Bench)
Walking along Shore Parkway, I encounter this coronavirus graffiti. -
2020-04-07
Life Without Live (2, My relation to the story)
On May 7th, Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield published a piece reminiscing on the time when it was okay to go to live music events. A section of the piece details Sheffield's last show before quarantine -- Control Top at Union Pool in Brooklyn. It was interesting to hear how much he enjoyed the show, since the company I work for worked really hard to book and promote it. I tweeted about the article from the company account and received very kind words back from Sheffield. -
05/01/2020
Daily Brooklyn Walk #4
Fox, a flag and a facemask. *#fordhamuniversity -
04/22/2020
Daily Brooklyn Walk #3
An Earth Day walk; a shuttered movie theatre marquee and a cabbage *#fordhamuniversity -
2020-04-16
Songs from the Pandemic
My name is Annalise I'm 17 years old and I live in Brooklyn, New York. Each day I'm going to be writing a little song while I'm isolation. I hope these videos bring a sense of routine and creativity in this time of uncertainty as well as inspires creativity! :) -
2020-04-17
4/7/20, Ambulance Sirens heard in Bklyn
This is an entry from my journal dated 4/7/2020. Ambulance sirens have been the dominant noise on the streets of NYC during this crisis. On this date, I decided to record every ambulance siren I heard passing through my neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. -
03/30/2020
FBI Arrest Brooklyn Man Selling Overpriced N95 Masks Who Coughed On Agents
This is an article detailing how a man in Brooklyn, New York had been hoarding medical supplies and reselling them at extremely marked up prices. When the FBI goes to his house to investigate, he coughs on them and claims he had tested positive for COVID-19.